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Squeaver, Cole Stonebrook, Matthew Frana, Samuel Tabor
Squeaver, Cole Stonebrook, Matthew Frana, Samuel Tabor
EURēCA: Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement
Overhanging limbs pose a threat to many homeowners with trees in their yard. If these limbs fall, property damage and personal injury are a major possibility. Currently the two methods used to cut and remove these limbs are hiring a tree service to use a boom truck to lift an arborist up to the limb or having a tree climber cut and lower the limb. Both methods are unsafe and expensive. Our design will be a tree-trimming device that can be rented from an equipment rental facility and operated by the homeowner. The machine will have the capability to extend …